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Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling of Leishmaniasis Incidence in Brazil
Background Leishmaniasis is endemic in 98 countries with an estimated 350 million people at risk and approximately 2 million cases annually. Brazil is one of the most severely... -
Digital Participatory Surveillance and the Zika Crisis: Opportunities and Cav...
Managing the global threat of Zika requires innovative solutions. This article examines the potential of Digital Participatory Surveillance to support the management of global... -
Epidemiologic Models, Key Logs, and Realizing the Promise of WHA 54.19
During the late 1800s, when trees were cut by handsaw and the logs floated down river by the hundreds to be milled, they occasionally jammed. Skilled lumberjacks could often... -
The global one health paradigm: challenges and opportunities for tackling inf...
Zoonotic infectious diseases have been an important concern to humankind for more than 10,000 years. Today, approximately 75% of newly emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are... -
A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Towards Control and Elimin...
Human helminthiases are of considerable public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The acknowledgement of the disease burden due to helminth... -
An interfaith dialogue on the neglected tropical diseases.
Most of the world's neglected tropical diseases occur among populations that adhere to Islam, Catholicism, or Hinduism, an observation that affords opportunities to establish a...
